55S CLASS INSECTA. 



alvravs terminated posteriorly and insensibly bv a pointeti and 

 prolonged angle. Such are the Pedixi, properly so called, 

 of ^I. le Comte Dejean, 



In others the anterior edge of the head is entire, or without 

 emargination. The four anterior tarsi of the males are 

 equally, or almost equally dilated. The form of the body, 

 and that of the corslet, in particular, is still similar to that of 

 the last pedini. 



Those in which the anterior edge of the head still presents 

 an emargination, form the sub-genus, 



Blaptixus, Dej. (Be}. Cat. 66. Blaps fibidens, Schcen. 

 Syuon. Insect. I. 1, tab. ii. 8.) 



Those in which it is entire or without emargination. are, 



Platyscelis, Latr. 



We are now arrived to ^lelasoma, provided with wings. 

 Their body is usually oval or oblong, depressed, or but little 

 raised, with the corslet square or trapezoid, of the breadth of 

 the abdomen at its posterior extremity. The palpi are thicker 

 at their extremity, the last articulation of the maxillaries is 

 in the form of a reversed triangle or hatchet. The mentum 

 is but little extended in breadth, and leaves the base of the 

 jaws uncovered.* 



These melasoma will comprise the third and last tribe, 

 that of the Texebrioxites, formed of a single genus, that 

 of 



• By reason of their jaws, armed at the internal side with a corneous 

 tooth, the Epitragi ought systematically to belong to this tribe, and be 

 removed from all the sub-genera, of which it is composed, by their chin 

 much larger, and covering the base of the jaws; but in the natural order 

 it appears to me, that these insects should be placed near helops. 



